"why were members of Usama bin Laden's family allowed to fly home from the US?"
Possibly because they had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what had happened on the 11th September 2001, and getting them out of the country was the only way to guarantee that some "lynch-mob" didn't make a terrible situation a damned sight worse.
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